>> i dont get it... why do ppl like having a high post count?
I guess it boosts their ego ... makes them feel special and needed. At the end of the day they're all completely insecure and the high post-count makes them feel worthwhile and ultimately necessary in the world. They think they have a place in the world. And it makes them feel good about themselves.

I dunno. Why not?

Maybe it's not about the post count but getting credited for what they have done. Meh. Whatever.

>> i dont get it... why do ppl like having a high post count?
I guess it boosts their ego ... makes them feel special and needed.

No! I used to think, particularly on this board, that post counts will help guests figure out who's smart and who's not. But people will post like 40 times one month and then be inactive for a longer time, so people will absorb the advice of active newbies instead. On other forums concerned with certain, non-academic topics it doesn't mean anything at all. The average intelligent person realizes this, so I scrapped that idea. But you know what, people like post counts the same way they like levelling up in [insert favorite MMORPG here].

When are big numbers ever a bad thing?* Take GIMPS, for example. Big numbers. The Lie group that just got solved - really. big. numbers. Seeing big numbers associated with ones name is usually a desirable thing. I dunno. The whole, "I have a bagamazill-omg-illion bytes on my harddisk" thing.
Worst case, big numbers provide an excuse to make supercomputers. "If one computer is this fast... then ten thousand computers..."

*whips out his best best Carl Sagan impression* billions and billions of posts!

>> I can't understand what is wrong?
I don't know if there are any clear ideas, but it's pretty much accepted around our community that all the moderators are now dead* and there will be none until further notice.

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

>> [edit] How big would you guess CBoard's database is? [/edit]
That's why they should backup what's new since the last backup. Come on, they're programmers. But I would suggest that it is somewhere in the large region. Alas the figures died with the mods

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell